attollent — ozdic

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Lifting up, raising (said of muscles, especially the levator palpebrae superioris).

And here I might instance the peculiar and artificial structure of the trochlearis, and the augmentation of its power by the trochlea; the magnitude and strength of the attollent muscle, somewhat exceeding that of its antagonist

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A raising or lifting muscle.

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And here I might instance the peculiar and artificial structure of the trochlearis, and the augmentation of its power by the trochlea; the magnitude and strength of the attollent muscle, somewhat exce

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